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Unoriginal Love for Chiang Mai
Having completed our tour from the north to the south of Vietnam, we departed Saigon to tour Thailand in the same order, beginning in Chiang Mai. Not only are Thai women strikingly beautiful, but their...
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Lions, Tigers, and Muay Thai…Oh My
On our second day in Chiang Mai, we made like the locals and mounted a motorbike. Don’t worry, Mom and Dad, Chiang Mai traffic is very calm and safe. As if backpacking through SE Asia isn’t enough of a...
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Hill Tribes of Northern Thailand: Day 1
We had heard from other travelers, including my dad remembering his own trek thirty years ago, that the hill tribes outside of Chiang Mai couldn’t be missed. We found a private guide, Sutthi, who was...
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Hill Tribes of Northern Thailand: Day 2
We boarded a long, skinny boat powered and steered by an old car motor at the end of a long metal pole. We zipped down the river to arrive at a famous “Longneck Village.” We were greeted by a woman...
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Palaces, Pollution, Protests, and Prostitutes
We savored one last evening in Chiang Mai lollygagging at the night market and chowing down on massive burritos (believe it or not, we were finally ready for a break from fried noodles) before flying...
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Signing Off from Koh Pha Ngan
Taxi, plane, bus, ferry, taxi…and finally, paradise. Koh Pha Ngan — island bliss in the Gulf of Thailand in the southeast of the country. The sight of so many “bro” backpackers swarming the island...
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